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4.15.5. Green Procurement Requirements

  1. Contracting officers must ensure that value for money has been achieved for Canada. Value for money includes the consideration of many factors such as cost, performance, availability, quality and environmental performance.
  2. Contracting officers must consider green procurement in the preparation of solicitation documents and resulting contracts, including requests for standing offers and requests for supply arrangements, to ensure that environmental considerations, if appropriate, are addressed. Contracting officers must also consult with relevant commodity teams with respect to Green Procurement Plans and Guide to Completion. Environmental considerations that are related to specific commodities can then be utilized in the procurement. Contracting officers should consider departmental green procurement targets and the green procurement experience of other departments.
  3. Until such time as standard clauses and conditions on environmental performance considerations have been developed centrally, they should be developed by contracting officers as appropriate to support the inclusion of environmental performance requirements, recognizing that they will have to be approved by Legal Services.
  4. Contracting officers can consult Annex 2.2: Green Procurement: Environmental Factors and Evaluation Indicators for a list of factors to be considered in developing the solicitation, as well as the Green Procurement Checklist within the Environmental Awareness Tool Kit.
  5. For additional information, consult the Developing Green Procurement Specifications within the Environmental Awareness Tool Kit and section 3.2 Selection According to Technical Capacity of the Guideline for Integration of Environmental Performance Considerations in Federal Government Procurement.
  6. Contracting officers can contact the Green Procurement Team, within the Procurement Renewal Office, by e-mail at AchatsEcologiques.GreenProcurement@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca, to obtain assistance with integrating environmental considerations in their solicitation documents.
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